Greg pr0n - The Iron Lady

Stevo_666

DonDaddyD wrote:

People I think that will enjoy it:

JeremyRundle Spen666 Stevo66

Well now you've named me as one of Thatcher's Stormtroopers I suppose I'll have to go and watch it. I'm a bit disappointed you only put me in the 'moderately fascist' group though ;-)

EKE_38BPM

Basing a country's economic policy on a new theory that had only been tried in a South American dictatorship is not the action of a sane person.

greg66_tri_v2.0

From what I have heard, it is a bit saccharine and a bit too much of a Streep-showcase. Last night's telly had a throwaway line about her having been the most influential and important woman this country has known since Elizabeth I. I started to raise an eyebrow, but then it dawned on me that that was probably completely correct. Whatever one thinks of her politics or her personality, someone who can claim that label deserves a serious biopic, which I don't think this is.

veronese68

To an American audience used to the American right she'll come across as the sanest person on the planet. That lot are properly scary.

tailwindhome

DonDaddyD wrote:

People who will watch it while foaming at the mouth:

Mybreakfastconsisted Rick Chasey Notsoblue RJSterry Tailwindhome Sewinman

Anyway, when you do watch it let me know what you think.

Hey, I'm on the list.

People who will watch it while hoping there parents never find out and have the DVD in that secret place under the bed for those nights when the Mrs is out with the girls

DDD

NGale wrote:

Here, here!! Public holiday yes...so people can celebrate!

I remember the 80s and living under the cloud of my parents having their phone tapped and being followed all because my father as a union member and both parents active members of the labour party! I also remember going to South Wales during the Miners strike to take food and clothes packages to families there who were being starved to death.

The mining industry may have been dying, but she did the unforgivable, she stripped decent people of their dignity :evil:

Does the Commander know of this??

Jay dubbleU

NGale wrote:

BigMat wrote:

On a related note, I have heard talk of a state funeral - this must not be allowed to happen!

Here, here!! Public holiday yes...so people can celebrate!

I remember the 80s and living under the cloud of my parents having their phone tapped and being followed all because my father as a union member and both parents active members of the labour party! I also remember going to South Wales during the Miners strike to take food and clothes packages to families there who were being starved to death.

The mining industry may have been dying, but she did the unforgivable, she stripped decent people of their dignity :evil:

Coming from a Yorkshire mining family I have a deep hatred of the woman and her everlasting smugness - they'll have to put a guard on her grave otherwise I know people who will be queuing up to p*ss on it

byke68

I thought Meryl Streep was American! :roll:

LeicesterLad

Either way, the team that made the film were taking a huge risk, no? Surely at least 50% of regular film goers hate Thatcher so much, that they won't bother going to see it, so viewing numbers might not look so great...

Stevo_666

LeicesterLad wrote:

Either way, the team that made the film were taking a huge risk, no? Surely at least 50% of regular film goers hate Thatcher so much, that they won't bother going to see it, so viewing numbers might not look so great...

Enough people liked her to vote her in 3 times ;-), so there'll probably be a few takers. It would be a much bigger risk making a film about (say) Gordon Brown, Neil Kinnock or Michael Foot - who the hell would bother going to see something like that? :-)

LeicesterLad

Stevo 666 wrote:

LeicesterLad wrote:

Either way, the team that made the film were taking a huge risk, no? Surely at least 50% of regular film goers hate Thatcher so much, that they won't bother going to see it, so viewing numbers might not look so great...

Enough people liked her to vote her in 3 times ;-), so there'll probably be a few takers. It would be a much bigger risk making a file about (say) Gordon Brown, Neil Kinnock or Michael Foot - who the hell would bother going to see something like that? :-)

This is true, whenever i see Brown on tv, I get a little bit of sick in my mouth.

DonDaddyD

Greg66 wrote:

her [Thatcher] having been the most influential and important woman this country has known since Elizabeth I. I started to raise an eyebrow, but then it dawned on me that that was probably completely correct.

I am inclined to agree with this.

With the exception of Lizzy no. 1 no other Woman has held a higher and more influential office in this country.

rjsterry

An interesting article by Michael White here

http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/blog/2012/jan/09/executive-pay-margaret-thatcher

rick_chasey

rjsterry wrote:

An interesting article by Michael White here

http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/blog/2012/jan/09/executive-pay-margaret-thatcher

I'm a bit of a Michael White fan.

He can be flippant and divisive, and he certainly sits to the right of that whole paper, but he's pretty good.

As an aside: I couldn't believe Cameron, leader of the Tory party, spoke of "market failures" that had to be corrected.

Granted his suggested policies won't do anything, but that he even came out with that bad boy.